Peel back the cliches and there’s something interesting here: a gnawing sense of injustice and biting social commentary.

Zarcilla strains so hard to match the politics of the premise with the parameters of horror that he ends up diluting both — imagine Roma meets Poltergeist, or The Maid meets Insidious.

Zarcilla may have more ideas than this film can easily accommodate, or the viewer easily swallow, but he is a distinctly stylish and confident director to keep an eye on.

As much as it foregrounds the overlooked horrors of immigrant life, what lords over Raging Grace is how it exoticizes that intent to the point of making an unnecessary theater out of it.